Religulous (2008) Movie Reviews

Religulous (2008)

Bill Maher’s take on the current state of world religion.

Battle in Seattle (2007) Movie Reviews

Battle in Seattle (2007)

Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings.

Choke (2008) Movie Reviews

Choke (2008)

A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother’s hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.

Nights in Rodanthe (2008) Movie Reviews

Nights in Rodanthe (2008)

A doctor who is traveling to see his estranged son sparks with an unhappily married woman at a North Carolina inn.

Baghead (2008) Movie Reviews

Baghead (2008)

Four struggling actors retreat to a cabin in Big Bear, California in order to write a screenplay that will make them all stars. Problem is: What happens when their story idea — a horror…

Lakeview Terrace (2008) Movie Reviews

Lakeview Terrace (2008)

A LAPD officer will stop at nothing to force out the interracial couple who just moved in next door.

Burn After Reading (2008) Movie Reviews

Burn After Reading (2008)

A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it.

The Women (2008) Movie Reviews

The Women (2008)

A wealthy New Yorker wrestles with the decision to leave her cheating husband, as she and her friends discover that women really can have it all.

Frozen River (2008) Movie Reviews

Frozen River (2008)

Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling…

Elegy (2008) Movie Reviews

Elegy (2008)

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life — which he indicates is a state of “emancipated manhood” — thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.

Man on Wire (2008) Movie Reviews

Man on Wire (2008)

A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit’s daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City’s World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1974, what some consider, “the artistic crime of the century.”

Traitor (2008) Movie Reviews

Traitor (2008)

When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.

Hamlet 2 (2008) Movie Reviews

Hamlet 2 (2008)

In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

American Teen (2008) Movie Reviews

American Teen (2008)

A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques.

Bottle Shock (2008) Movie Reviews

Bottle Shock (2008)

The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as “Judgment of Paris”.

Henry Poole Is Here (2008) Movie Reviews

Henry Poole Is Here (2008)

Henry Poole moves in to a house in his old neighborhood, to spend what he believes are his remaining days alone. The discovery of a “miracle” by a nosy neighbor ruptures his solitude and restores his faith in life.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) Movie Reviews

Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.

Tropic Thunder (2008) Movie Reviews

Tropic Thunder (2008)

Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.